Takei H

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus
article 2003
The Annals of thoracic surgery ·doi:10.1016/s0003-4975(03)00155-3

Catamenial pneumothorax is a rare clinical entity of unknown etiology. The most well known hypothesis is passage of air from the genital tract through endometrial fenestrations in the diaphragm. Although some reports are associated with dia…

case-report 1996
Kyobu geka. The Japanese journal of thoracic surgery

A 40-year old woman had experienced repeated spontaneous pneumothorax on the right side at the beginning of each menstrual period for one year. The level of serum CA125 was high at 60 ng/ml. Right thoracotomy revealed the presence of multip…